Howe Caverns is a premier natural attraction, a living, limestone cave, carved by an underground river over the course of 6 million years, located 156-feet below the earth's surface. An Schoharie County, N.Y. farmer discovered the caverns more than 160 years ago. Formed in 1927, Howe Caverns incorporated, a public company owned by shareholders, opened the caverns to the public on Memorial Day weekend of 1929.
Definition of 'Volatility'. Definition: It is a rate at which the price of a security increases or decreases for a given set of returns. Volatility is measured by calculating the standard deviation of the annualized returns over a given period of time. It shows the range to which the price of a security may increase or decrease.
This article is about Volatilty (chemstry). For other uses of the term Volatility, please see Volatility (disambiguation). In chemistry and physics, volatility is a term used to characterize the tendency of a substance to vaporize. It is directly related to a substance' s vapor pressure. At a given temperature, a substance with a higher vapor pressure will vaporize more readily than a substance with a lower vapor pressure.